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I've covered some of this in my rant on demonizing advisor characters, but it deserves further covering.
Princess Celestia is not evil.
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First of all, it was NOT Princess Luna who was banished. It was Nightmare Moon. I grow increasingly tired of supposedly "touching" fanart that shows Luna waiting out the thousand years on the moon; Luna didn't EXIST at the time - that's why she's so young-looking at the end of "Elements of Harmony".
(Also, it wasn't ON the moon, it was IN the moon; that's why she was the "Mare in the Moon". Any depiction that shows her standing on the moon's surface is incorrect.)
So no, Celestia didn't banish her sister to the Moon on a whim; she sealed away a monstrous creature of darkness.
But what's the point, you might ask? Certainly eternal night really couldn't be that bad? After all, the ponies make their own weather. Why would the creation of permanent darkness affect anything?
Because according to Lauren Faust, "Their food can't grow without sunlight."
Eternal darkness would have destroyed Equestria for good. A night that never ends would mean famine, the slow starvation of all ponykind. Celestia didn't banish Nightmare Moon simply to get her sister out of the way - she did it to save her people.
Thankfully, the fandom seems to be getting this - Egophiliac has made a brilliant piece of fanart entitled "Eternal Night" that shows exactly what I outlined above.
But it's worth pointing out for those who haven't gotten the hint yet - between the rightful ruler of Equestria and a monster born of darkness, bent on plunging the land into never-ending nightfall, Princess Celestia is not the villain.
Princess Celestia is not evil.
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First of all, it was NOT Princess Luna who was banished. It was Nightmare Moon. I grow increasingly tired of supposedly "touching" fanart that shows Luna waiting out the thousand years on the moon; Luna didn't EXIST at the time - that's why she's so young-looking at the end of "Elements of Harmony".
(Also, it wasn't ON the moon, it was IN the moon; that's why she was the "Mare in the Moon". Any depiction that shows her standing on the moon's surface is incorrect.)
So no, Celestia didn't banish her sister to the Moon on a whim; she sealed away a monstrous creature of darkness.
But what's the point, you might ask? Certainly eternal night really couldn't be that bad? After all, the ponies make their own weather. Why would the creation of permanent darkness affect anything?
Because according to Lauren Faust, "Their food can't grow without sunlight."
Eternal darkness would have destroyed Equestria for good. A night that never ends would mean famine, the slow starvation of all ponykind. Celestia didn't banish Nightmare Moon simply to get her sister out of the way - she did it to save her people.
Thankfully, the fandom seems to be getting this - Egophiliac has made a brilliant piece of fanart entitled "Eternal Night" that shows exactly what I outlined above.
But it's worth pointing out for those who haven't gotten the hint yet - between the rightful ruler of Equestria and a monster born of darkness, bent on plunging the land into never-ending nightfall, Princess Celestia is not the villain.
